Festival to celebrate Asian cinema
The spotlight falls on Asian cinema as the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac), which celebrates 20 years of its inception, holds “Imaging Asia” in New Delhi from August 18 to 22. Spread across Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Instituto Cervantes, Alliance Française, the India Habitat Centre and the India
International Centre, the festival promises to be a vibrant celebration of cinema, which will see the screening of 31 Netpac award-winning films, a conference on Asian cinema, exhibitions that will delve into Asia’s proto-cinema images and narratives and the performances of traditional Indian and Asian forms of pictorial storytelling.
“It is a film festival that celebrates Asia,” says Aruna Vasudev, president, Netpac and the founder of the “Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema”. According to Vasudev, while screening of films will be the nodal point of the festival, “Imaging Asia” will be more than a mere film festival. “It will also put the focus on pre-date cinema narratives and the forms of storytelling which were the precursor to cinema as we know it,” she adds.
The festival will be inaugurated by foreign secretary Nirupama Rao on Thursday. The festival is being organised in association with Asian Heritage Foundation, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Confederation of Indian Industries.
“It’s a way of thanking everybody who has extended their support in the promotion of Asian cinema,” says Vasudev.
Kazakhstan’s Tulpan, directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy, which revolves around a group of nomadic shepherds in a poverty-stricken region of southern Kazakhstan, will be the opening film.
The films to be shown at the festival have been curated by Latika Padgaonkar.
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